Game apparatus.



Patented Au 22, I899. C. E. PATTERSON.

GAME APPARATUS.

(Application filed De e. 27, 1898.)

(No Modql.)

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GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICA'ITON forming part of Letters Patent No. 631,660, dated August 22, 1899-. Application filed December 27,1898- Serial No 700,398. (No model.)

To all; whom it may concern; Be it known that I, CHARLES E. PATTERSON, of Hornellsville, in the county of Steuben and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Game Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved game apparatus which is simple and durable in construction and arranged to afford considerable amusement to the player or players and at the same time furnish a good practice in the use of numerals for increasing the players ability to mentally add, multiply, and divide accurately and rapidly.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the game-board with some of the checkers placed thereon, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the checkers.

The improved game apparatus is provided with a game-board A, made of pasteboard, wood, or other suitable material, and the surface of the board is divided into fields a b c d, preferably square in shape, as shown, and surrounded by a double-line border e, containing marked spaces f, on which checkers B B B B &c., are played in the manner hereinafter more fully explained. The spaces f are preferably separated from one another, as indicated in Fig. 1, and are preferably distinguished by crossing lines, as shown.

The checkers B B B B &c., are preferably twenty-four in number and made in the form of square blocks with a plurality of numerals on the face of each block, said numerals, as shown, being, preferably, four in number, and each block having difierent numerals.

In order to play the game, the blocks are divided among the players, and in order to count it is necessary to make multiples of a given nu mbersay, for instance, the number five. j The first player places the checker B on the space f between theinside and outside border-lines c c for the field c and then scores three multiples of fivethat is, fifteen'by adding the numerals 7 and 8 along the outer border-line c. The addition of the numerals 5 and 9 does not produce a multiple of five, and consequently is not counted. The second player selects from his number of checkers the checker B and places the same in the lower left-hand corner of the border for the field c and scores four multiples of five by counting twenty along the inside of the border-line c by adding the numerals 9, 5, and 6. The addition of the numerals 7 8 2 4 along the line 0 results in twentyone, and as this number is not a multiple of five it does not count for the second player. The third player, or, if only two play, the first one, selects from his checkers the checker B and places the same on the marked space in the upper left-hand corner of the field c and the lower left-hand corner of the field a. This player scores six pointsthat is, six multiples of five, or thirty-obtained by adding along the outside border-line c the numerals 4 2 8 7 9, equaling thirty. It will be noticed that the numeral 3 is not added,as this numeral belongs to the outside border-line a for the field a. By adding the numerals 7 6 5 9 on the inside border-line 0 no multiple of five is obtained, and consequently the player does not score more than the six points above mentioned. The fourth player, -or the second player, if only two play, selects the checker B and places the same, as shown in Fig. 1, between the border-line a of the field a and the border-line c of the field c. This player can add thirty-five or score seven points by adding the numerals 8 9 8, equalingtwentyfive, along the border-line a and 7 1 2,

equaling ten, along the border-line c of the field 0. Thus by adding the two scores,twenty five and ten, seven multiples of five are obtained. The players continue in the manner described until all the marked spaces f are filled, when the game is finished.

It will be seen that by the arrangement described the player is compelled to add, multiply, and divide accurately and rapidly in order to obtain the best results, and it is evident that the game can be rendered more easy or difiieult to suit the mental capacity of the players by selecting lower or higher numerals I as the multiple.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A game apparatus comprising a gameboard having its surface divided into fields with double -line borders surrounding the fields, the said double-line borders being divided into spaces,alternate spaces having distin guishing marks, and checkers each having a plurality of numerals and adapted to be played on said spaces in the double-line borders to form multiples ofa given numberalong the border-lines, substantially as shown and described.

2. A game apparatus comprising a gameboard having its surface divided into fields square in shape, with double-line borders surrounding the fields, the double-line borders containing square spaces having distinguishin g marks and separated from one another by plain square spaces and checkers square in shape and having four numerals on their faces and adapted to be played on said marked spaces in the double-line borders to form multiples of a given number along the borderlines, substantially as shown and described.

3. A game apparatus comprising a gameboard having its surface divided into a plurality of fields with double-line borders, and a series of checkers each having on one face a plurality of spaces each bearing a numeral, the said checkers being adapted to be played on the double-line borders, substantially as described.

4. A game apparatus comprising a gameboard having its surface divided into fields square in shape with double-line borders, and checkers each provided on one face with four numerals, and adapted to be played on said double-line borders to form multiples of a given number along the border-lines, substantially as described.

CHARLES E. PATTERSON.

\Vitnesses:

MILO M. ACKER, NELLIE L. HENRY. 

